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Friday, January 5, 2018

What’s your New Year’s Resolution?

After the last couple of days, I think mine may be to not
get so excited when I see that Norovirus and Influenza are ramping up….. Why do I get excited? Well, I’m in the cleaning and disinfection
business. Environmental surfaces,
fomites and let’s face it, when it comes to Norovirus, anywhere our hands will
touch has the potential to spread that nasty virus. Why after the last couple of days? Well, as they say “Karma’s
a witch”. I got bit by Noro, but on the
bright side, I have successfully lost any weight I gained from consuming sweet
treats over the Christmas Holidays!

As we enter the 7th year of Talk Clean To Me, I
would like to reflect back on the hundreds of blogs that have been shared and
the dialogue with many of you that has started as a result of reading
them. One would think that the topic of
cleaning and disinfection would get stale after a while. What I have learned in my almost 15 years in
the industry is that we never know what is around the next corner.

If I look just at the last several weeks, there have been
updates on the rising Flu cases across Canada and the US, cruise ships being hit
by Norovirus, virtually a total ban on Romaine
lettuce due to E. coli (seriously
– skip the Caesar salads until Health Canada says it’s safe), Salmonellosis
in Australia linked to a bakery, Avian
Influenza cropping up in numerous countries causing millions upon millions
of poultry to be culled, Leptospirosis
in Colorado and scrub
typhus has turned out to be the 2nd most frequent infectious disease in
parts of India after dengue. Of course
these are just the highlights of the “cool” outbreaks and do not touch on any
of the science that is being published about new disinfectant technologies,
surfaces or issues with reprocessing surfaces, materials or devices.

The long and the short is that 2018 promises to continue to
provide great fodder for blogs and of course we never know when or where the
newest pathogen will arrive and with that what we need to do to keep ourselves
safe and healthy! I hope that Talk Clean
To Me will continue to be a source of education and entertainment!

Until next week, I have some surfaces I need to disinfectant
to get rid of my highly contagious virus that is a “great” jump start to my winter
weight loss program!